with mindfulness meditation and therapeutic movement

With meditation & healing body work:

reduce stress | balance moods | find inner peace

Enhance traditional recovery programs

with evidence-based practices

Offering programs for people in recoveryfrom addiction, from trauma, and from major life stressors.

By integrating mindfulness meditation, gentle movement therapy, and the 12-Step model, our programs enrich your capacity to heal and provide you with powerful strategies to handle life’s many hurdles.

Classes & Workshops

Our classes and workshops teach you how to attain the inner calm and resilience that will sustain you in times of difficulty. Our multidisciplinary approach promotes health and recovery in all aspects of your life.

“A mindful emergence from addiction into health, happiness, and wholeness, using the mind to heal the brain and movement to heal the body.”

The Teachers

Eddie LeShure and Margaret Kirschner are the founders and teachers at A Mindful Emergence. Each has extensive experience in mindfulness meditation. Eddie also specializes in recovery issues, while Margaret specializes in therapeutic yoga. By integrating these disciplines, they bring a new and powerful approach to the treatment of addiction, trauma, and other stress-related disorders.

Testimonials

In the short time I’ve worked with Eddie and Margaret I feel like I’ve made great progress on my path to serenity. With Eddie’s coaching, I’ve gone from meditating for an excruciating five minutes a day tobegun a morning and evening practice of twenty relaxing minutes each – something I never thought I’d be able to do. With Margaret, I’ve incorporated yoga practice that has helped to energize yet ground me in the morning and to relax and let go in the evening. I’ve noticed less anxiety during the day and improved sleep at night.

Thanks to Eddie and Margaret I am less reactive and feel more open and connected with my life. I’m so grateful to have them assist me on this journey!

Sandra Norman

Norman Bookkeeping

I have had the pleasure of knowing Eddie LeShure for the last couple months since I have invited him to come and teach mindfulness to the men of Next Step Recovery. Eddie has become a valuable resource by teaching the men how to apply mindfulness to their everyday practice and how it ties to their recovery journey by relating the 12 Steps to his teachings.

Without any hesitation, I highly recommend Mr. LeShure to any program dedicated to teaching this invaluable skill to those with mental health and addiction issues.

Susan Stader

Executive Director, Next Step Recovery

Eddie and Margaret have a vision for treating the whole person that is unique. Recovery is demanding, to say the least, but by integrating mindfulness meditation and therapeutic body work into treatment, recovery is taken to the next level.

I am far more centered and able to withstand life’s ups and downs with these practices. It has truly been transformative for me.

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Hear the most recently archived “A Mindful Emergence” on WPVM-FM 103.7/wpvmfm.org as Margaret and I were joined by Meta Commerse, CEO of Story Medicine Worldwide, focused on "Story Medicine for Racial Healing".

Native Chicagoan Meta Commerse is the daughter of Johari Amini, writer, teacher and leader in the Black Arts Movement of the ‘60s and '70s, and of the late Paul Commerse, Jr., jazz composer and vocalist. She is an award-winning author of six books and one play, all focused on family violence prevention and healing. Meta earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Health Arts & Science, her Master of Arts degree in History, and her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing, all from Goddard College in Vermont. Meta is Certified Wellness Practitioner, independent scholar of history and English in Asheville, as well as a mother of three children and grandmother of three grandsons. Her first novel is entitled The Mending Time.